White House tech director breaks down plan to balance AI national security and export promotion

OSTP Director Michale Kratsios, pictured here at a 2019 Web Summit event, said on July 30 that the administration is looking to balance export controls with the proliferation of U.S. technology. Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images

The Trump administration’s sweeping artificial intelligence policy aims to ensure that a U.S.-led technology stack is used at home and abroad, according to the Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios.

Speaking Wednesday morning at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Kratsios dissected the three executive orders on AI policy signed by President Donald Trump last week. Kratsios said they help to establish the administration’s three AI-policy pillars: leading in AI innovation, developing infrastructure, and supporting technology exports. 

“We have to have the most dominant technological stack in the world, and that's critically important for our national economic security,” he said.

Kratsios focused on ...